RSO
Office of the President
The
Dear Friends,
I can no longer in good
conscience belong to an organization that is willing to put children at risk in
order to maintain political correctness.
The endorsement of homosexual
adoption was the last straw, coming in the face of clear (but widely ignored)
evidence of the harm it causes.
In addition, the long-time
failure of AAP to protect the unborn has been a gross miscarriage of its
supposed mission. This is not to mention
failure to warn of the broken hearts that aborted mothers will experience when
the finality of what they have done hits home,
This may occur years later, but is none-the-less a direct result of
having been deceived into thinking that killing a inconvenient fetus would
solve the associated problems.
Also, AAP is guilty of the
betrayal of our teens by endorsing “the animal model of adolescence.” This is done by continuing to cynically
assume that the best we can do for them is blunt the epidemic of sexually
transmitted diseases and unwed pregnancies.
Abstinence until marriage has been simply listed, often at the end of
the list, as one of many equal choices instead of the ideal for physical and
mental health and the best guarantee of survival for our civilization.
It is with sadness that I
resign, knowing of the great effort of many who have tried to steer the ship in
other directions.
I am joining the
Sincerely,
Ross
S. Olson MD
Minneapolis MN 55417